Spaceflight news
— Mars Hope and Tianwen-1 arrive
— Great video from Tianwen-1 as it passes its first periareion (twitter.com/AJ_FI)
— Tianwen-1 will lower to a reconnaissance/landing orbit, then two different science orbits. (twitter.com/PRCMarsRover)
— Mars Hope sent back a fantastic image (bbc.com)
Mars fleet arriving soon
— Perseverance (americaspace.com) (everydayastronaut.com)
— Ingenuity (jpl.nasa.gov) (jpl.nasa.gov) (mars.nasa.gov)
— We previously talked to Ella Atkins about autonomous robotics (theorbitalmechanics.com)
Short & Sweet
— DARPA looks into off-earth manufacturing (rocketrundown.com)
— Turkey aims for 2023 lunar landing (reuters.com)
— The Vulcan pathfinder arrives (spaceflightinsider.com)
— Doors open at Blue Origin’s New Glenn factory (HT Andy Z: twitter.com/WordsmithFL)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Andrew Z and Espen via email: SN9 violation
— Andy pointed out debris separation (6:20 and 6:23: youtube.com)
— Espen pointed us at some illuminating tweets (HT Espen: twitter.com/wapodavenport)
This week in SF history
— 22 Feb, 1990. Launch of Ariane 4 V-36/407 (thespacereview.com) (capcomespace.net)
— Next week (2/23 - 3/1) in 2002: European cars may be small…